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ok thanks will try that out 
Yeah I know precomps does pretty much this. but still precomps have a set lenght and also you have to enter them to change them. Precomps are completely awesome to have, but still its a way to make good projects and apply changes to a complete composition inside another. Reason why I said folders would be nice is only to tidy up large comps without making precomps of stuff that doesnt need its own comp. Precomps behaves basically the same way as smart layers in Photoshop, but its great to be able to do both there, as going into the smart layer is more time consuming.
what I said about tidying with colored layers. I guess current is ok, but wouldnt hurt to see a colored icon instead of written text of the color you want it to be.
I know this is just nitpicking, but its things Im used to in finder and photoshop and something that makes workflow more fluid 
No, nitpicking is good othewrwise we'd all just be happy with our lot and Adobe wouldn't need to do anything. Make 'em sweat for their pay, I say!
I can definitely see what you mean about tidying up - and the layer/project colouring system could really do with an update, you're not wrong there (especially for a package with such amazing color changing functionality you'd expect to be able to pick your own layer colour rasther than having to select from Sea Foam, Fuchsia and the like) and the group thing is useful for tidying a comp (putting in all sorts of elements for one thing and group turning them off without having to see them in another comp to do fixes...
Ooh, I want that now.
I suppose their argument is it's not Photoshop. And precomping does everything you want.
And actually - thinking about it - when you pull in a PSD as a comp, those Groups become precomps in your imported PSD comp.
Huh. 
Oh I didnt know that groups became precomps (nice one!) ...But still I think having both would be nice. Like I would have been very disappointed if Photoshop would have removed groups after they introduced smart layers, which behaves essentially the same as a precomp.
Also, in later updates Photoshop has added features to groups such as group effects and what not, treating a full group as a single image, would have liked to see the same features in AE - so you can just drag things quickly in and out of groups.
I would love if AE would update some of the oldest plugins too. Like make a particle system that is a bit more up to date. Today working with particles you pretty much have to buy particular 2 for anything else than simple particle anims. Would have loved to see an even faster more robust particle system integrated with AE
Glad that was helpful - if it was press "Yes" at the bottom of that post and I'll get a point!
As the the reason why they don't update the particle stuff, I think you answered your own question there - It would probably cost Adobe more in R&D than it does to just get people to buy Red Giant's Particular 2.
Saying that, I've managed to do a lot of things with Particle World at one place when I diodn't have access to a license of RG's P2. It's not too shabby for an old plug-in.
I do first person shooter, video based, video games. So that means lots of really long POV shots. I would like to use the Warp Stabilizer tool on these shots but they are unmanageably long shots and sometimes have entire crowds of people running through them. So there are obvious sections where I can NOT use the stabilizer successfully. I get that. So I end up breaking my shot up and using the Stabilizer on just sections of the shot. PROBLEM: How do I TRANSITION from a section that IS stabilized in or out from a section that is NOT stabilized? OPTION ONE: I keyframe scale, rotation and position in order to get as close as possible to minimize the jump. The drawback of this approach is that I still can't make up for the subspace warp effect and will therefore have a jump in my image no matter what (yes, I could try to use the mesh warp). Very time consuming and not very satisfactory. OPTION TWO: I stair step my stabilized layer for each frame and change the stabilization value on each frame so that I create a frame by frame ramp of the stabilization effect.
SOLUTION SUGGESTION: Can we get a value added to the Warp Stabilizer that allows us to keyframe the effect in and out? Can that allow us to confine the effect to only a section of a clip so that the entire clip does not get processed? That would be very useful and problem solving for me. i.e.- I only want to use the Warp Stabilizer on a single portion of clip or on several individual portions of a clip.
P.S.- Come to think of it, this could be really helpful on the 3D Camera Tracker as well... only having to track a portion and solve the camera for a portion of a clip allows me to target the actual section where I'm planning on putting in the effect. It also would save me the computation time for sections I won't even be needing tracked or stabilized or whatever.
Two features that would save me minutes a day, hours a month, and days a year in time.
Background Auto-save [it currently does auto-save in the foreground]
Display ALL offline fonts. Limiting the list of offline fonts to three is a nuisance, If i get a hand me down project I want to know all the fonts I need to activate, not just the first three.
PLEASE ADOBE!!
Really unimpressed with the new features added to AE... good thing I subscribe to the latest updates... maybe they will improve AE for CC 2015 
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